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Many Israelis are upset with two of this year's Oscar nominations. Stephen Spielberg's Munich is being criticized for bias. But objections are greater to Paradise Now, the story of two Palestinian suicide bombers.

The Bush administration is imposing economic sanctions against senior officials of Myanmar, with China joining in to appeal for calm. Other Southeast Asian countries have condemned the violent repression of protesters.

A new coalition of San Diego agencies has formed to raise awareness of the threat global warming poses to San Diego specifically. The San Diego Foundation, the Natural History Museum, the Scripps Birc

The editors gather at the roundtable for opinions on the week's news.

The military-led government in Myanmar has driven the country's economy and infrastructure into the ground. Many of its people cross the border to get better wages and basic health care.

At first glance, the casting of Steve Carell as Maxwell Smart seemed a smart choice. I couldn't think of anyone else who could revive the cocky idiot savant that Don Adams had created back in 1965. Adams' Maxwell Smart was created to satirize the wildly popular spy films of James Bond. Adams played the inept, bumbling and perpetually confused yet unexpectedly successful Agent 86.

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India's billion-plus population is mad for movies, and Hollywood is hungry for a piece of the Hindi film market. Sony Pictures took the plunge recently with a highbrow romance — and found itself going head to head on opening weekend with a home-grown superstar.

United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon says the international body faces many challenges, but that he anticipates progress in Sudan and North Korea. He shares his thoughts on these conflicts, Iran and Iraq.

More questions are being raised about conflicts of interest between World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz and his girlfriend, a bank employee who received major pay increases. Critics now say he helped her get a contracting job during the run-up to the Iraq war. Wolfowitz is defying calls to step down.